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At NVIDIA's own list prices, a gigabyte of VRAM costs the same $62 on both cards. So the real question is which models you want. We ran 13 popular ones through our VRAM math, then priced renting each card by the hour.
Aliteq Team · · 11 min
$1,679.99 from Amazon today, against a $999 launch price and a $1,249.99 tracked low. The price record, what the extra $500 over a 5070 Ti buys on Nvidia's own spec sheet, and the numbers to buy at.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
US graphics card prices rose again in October, and nobody tracking them expects a drop soon. What every current card costs against its launch price, why waiting probably won't save you money, and which cards are still the least overpriced.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
At October's US prices, the RX 9070 for most people: it was $200 cheaper ($700 vs $900), 13% faster at 1440p in TechSpot's 23-game test and has 16GB instead of 12GB. The RTX 5070 still wins heavy ray tracing, DLSS game support and the easiest local-AI setup. Every number dated and sourced.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
The GPU alone costs $805 right now. the whole prebuilt PC is $1,600. let's actually do the math on whether that's a deal.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
Viral clearance-cage GPU finds are real — but chasing them on purpose is a bad plan, and the GDDR7 shortage explains why everyone's suddenly hunting.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
The RX 9070. On Nov 3, 2026 the cheapest new one on Newegg was $749.99 and the cheapest new RTX 5070 was $869.99. The Radeon is also 13% faster at 1440p in TechSpot's 23-game test and has 16GB of VRAM to 12GB. Buy the RTX 5070 only for heavy ray tracing, DLSS in older games or a CUDA-first AI setup.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
On Nov 6, 2026 the gap at Best Buy was $270 for the same chip with twice the memory. For local AI the 16GB is worth it; for 1080p gaming at medium settings it isn't. Here is the math, with every price and benchmark dated and sourced.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
Building still wins for a 16GB-VRAM tower, by about $520 against NZXT's matching RTX 5070 Ti prebuilt, but cheap prebuilts skimp on VRAM, 128GB AI boxes can't be built at all, and renting beats both for light use.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
Late 2026 flipped the usual math: two RTX 5090s now cost more than one 96GB RTX PRO 6000 and give you less memory. Buying still only beats renting if you'd keep the card busy for years. The prices, the break-even hours and which models need 96GB, checked Nov 6, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 9 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
While DRAM shortages push RTX 5070 prices up 36% and RTX 5060 up 27% at the median, AMD's 12GB Navi 48 card just fell to its lowest price ever. Here's whether that math still makes sense.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
AMD finalized this price increase weeks ago and sat on it, waiting to see if Nvidia would take the backlash first. Now that Nvidia's moved, so has AMD.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
NVIDIA never changed the list price. The shelf did. What the RTX 5070 Ti actually costs in October 2026, why, and when an RTX 5080 is a worse buy at the same 16GB.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
Nvidia hasn't announced the RTX 50 Super cards. Leaks point to a 24GB RTX 5080 around December or January and the rest of the lineup around CES 2027, held back by the price of 3GB memory chips. Here's when to wait and when to buy, checked Nov 6, 2026.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min
The 4GB RX 9050 shares a name with the 8GB card but has half the memory and half the bandwidth, and it's only sold inside prebuilt PCs. In TechSpot's 18-game test the 8GB card was 37% faster and Intel's Arc B570 was 44% faster. How to spot it, and what to buy for the same money.
Aliteq Team · · 8 min
That is more than the RTX 5090's $1,999 launch price. We checked the launch figure, today's shelf prices, and what a plain RTX 5080 costs instead.
Aliteq Team · · 6 min
The RX 9070 XT was 24% faster than the RTX 5070 at 1440p across 52 games in TechSpot's September test, has 16GB of VRAM to 12GB, and cost less in the US in October ($870 vs $900). Buy the RTX 5070 only for path tracing or if it's clearly cheaper where you shop.
Aliteq Team · · 7 min